City of Charleston Committee on Ways and Means 10/13/26

The City of Charleston Committee on Ways and Means met on October 13, 2026. The committee approved a $125,000 budget transfer for the Tyler EnerGov/MUN cloud migration and a $7,500 request from the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation’s accelerator program to support monitoring and documentation of vacant structures; the Bloomberg request had no local match. It also approved opioid-abatement funding through the South Carolina opioid relief fund, with no match noted, though the amount was not stated in the transcript.

The committee deferred an ordinance that would increase the procurement threshold requiring council approval from $40,000 to $100,000, pending further discussion related to the Port Authority. It approved first reading of new Dominion and Berkeley Electric franchise agreements, with a workshop for council members required before subsequent readings. The agreements include a 20-year term with a 10-year renewal option and an estimated annual franchise fee of $11–14 million, based on 5% of gross revenue. The real estate report also covered proposed EV charging spaces near Grove Street and a Long Savannah development-agreement amendment; no specific procurement award or cost was identified for those items.